We ended up taking Kealauea hike down into the “lake” of solid lava stopping at 15 points of interest that taught us about what happened not so long ago. It was a very long 4 miles.

Before the big hike we stopped and looked at the crater which still has a lot of activity.

Walking in the “lake” was described to us like walking onto the moon just after walking through a rainforest; of course, I didn’t like that description but it was pretty cool to walk a mile down the rainforest wall to a desolate landscape.

The last part of our hike was a lava tubes.

After being exhausted from the hike we drove down to the ocean front of the park to see where the lava recently took over the road about ~10 years ago.